“One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books.”
— Salman Rushdie
Simplified Meaning:
The problem with literary criticism is that it tries to fit books into certain set rules, cutting them to fit these rules, but this ruins the books.
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